Skydive Brit’s death plunge

Bradley Coker was killed when the plane he was in plummeted to earth and exploded

Bradley Coker, 24, was killed when the plane he was in plummeted to earth and exploded.

A report this week revealed the 30-year-old aircraft was over its weight limit, had not had a safety check in 78 flights and two instructors had taken drugs before the New Zealand tragedy.But just two weeks after the 2010 horror, plane owners SkyDiveNZ were back in business facing no charges.

Now Bradley’s devastated parents are urging people via a YouTube campaign to write to New Zealand PM John Key demanding an overhaul of the country’s adventure tourism industry. Dad Chris, 59, of Farnborough, Hants, said: “It’s like a grenade has been flung into your home, ripping the heart out of it. Bradley’s death was needless and reckless.

“Yet in New Zealand the laws are completely different, making it very hard to hold anyone to account.”